Art By Tom Sutton On
The Beginning From
Issue #47 Of Creepy
Published In 1972.
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More great, creepy art work by Tom Sutton.
ReplyDeleteThis is a serviceable story by Steve Skeates, but I don't quite think the spoon-thing pays off. The ending of the unpleasant authorities being in the right set me off thinking: With stories featuring such unpleasant authorities governing such unpleasant worlds, what ratio of stories show the authorities ultimately to be right versus ultimately wrong? I guess this protagonist wasn't shown as nice enough to deserve a utopian ending (though he wasn't gruelingly evil, either, unless that was a misfiring of the spoon-thing), but plenty of kindly, gentle protagonists get the dystopian ending, too.
Ha! Looking back at the last post, I had forgotten that the authority figure was shown as ultimately wrong. However, it is a different type of story where the authority figure IS the protagonist. This post's story is more about escaping the status quo versus maintaining it as in the last post.
ReplyDeleteWell these tales are from the 1970's were downbeat endings were the norm (especially at Warren Publications}.
ReplyDeleteTom Sutton might have been one of the most experimental comic book artists of his time.